Remember GooSync, the service that allows you to sync the data from Google Calendar with your phone’s calendar? You certainly do — we’ve already covered them in a couple of posts earlier this year. Now they’ve announced that their service — used by more than 100,000 people worldwide — is supporting the Apple iPhone. Yap,…
Get 600 Euro for signing up your unlocked iPhone with Debitel Germany
So, with T-Mobile Germany forced to sell unlocked iPhones (at least for now), Debitel’s got a plan to help snatch-up some potential unlocked iPhone customers. Debitel provides its customer with leased network time from its German counterparts, and they’re offering a €600 bonus to all new iPhone customers. The sign-up bonus should help bring the…
Most useful iPhone app to date – iLevel
In terms of real-world applicability, this might be the most useful iPhone application to date. So, just what is this uber-useful third-party iPhone app? Well, it’s called “iLevel,” and it is, well, a level. iLevel makes use of the iPhone’s integrated accelerometers to function as a digital level for all your picture-aligning, table-building, driveway-leveling needs.…
Apple starts seeding official iPhone SDK to a select few developers
It seems that Apple has heard our pleas to stop talking it up and get their official iPhone SDK out into developers’ hands. Well, in all actuality, Apple probably wasn’t responding to our singular call for the iPhone SDK, but we’ll take what we can get. Electronista is reporting that Apple has started seeding the…
France’s Orange expects to sell 100,000 iPhones by year-end; sell cheaper unlocked iPhones
With the French iPhone launch just days away, the nation’s Apple-partnered wireless carrier is speaking up about its iPhone sales goals. Orange has announced that it expects to push 100,000 iPhones out its doors by the end of this year – merely a month after the iPhones launch on November 29. Orange Wireless’s CEO, Didier…
Apple’s iPhone SDK will require applications to have digital signatures
The Apple iPhone SDK is likely coming early next year, that much we know. And, as Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak pointed out in an interview with Fortune, Steve Jobs is planning to require any third-party iPhone applications to use a digital signature – much like Nokia requires for any third-party…
T-Mobile unlocks German iPhones through iTunes – official iPhone unlocking hack on the way?
We all know by now that T-Mobile Germany has been forced to offer carrier-unlocked iPhones to its customers. But, until now, we had no idea how Apple and T-Mobile would go about unlocking those 999 Euro (about $1,500 USD) iPhones. Well, thanks to well-heeled iPhone hopefuls with the bankroll and desire to own an iPhone…
Meizu M8 MiniOne to debut at CES? Apple’s lawyers rejoice!
CES is certainly the place to be. Yes, we’ll be sending our team there as well. And guess who’s also going to attend? Meizu – the folks behind the world’s most famous iPhone clone, MiniOne M8. Now I could go on and on about the “right thing to do” and whether this is a “smart…
ScummVM goes iPhone; Brings good ol’ point-and-click adventures to Apple handset users
Now here’s a reason to rejoice this Monday. We’ve just spotted that the folks behind the ScummVM project has ported their popular application to the iPhone. Yes, it’s the true unofficial native app, meaning you’ll have to jailbrake your beloved handset before installing it — that’s in case you still tolerate the lack of real…
iPhone hacker reveals Apple’s online (iTunes) rental plans
The latest iPhone update didn’t really do anything impressive for our iPhones. Sure, that TIFF-image security hole was patched, but it was more of a headache for third-party iPhone developers than anything else. Or was it? One iPhone hacker noticed that the last iPhone update contained some interesting code hidden within. These code strings seem…